Do you have COVID-19 @Syd_TVChannel ?
Unfortunately, yes.
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Wishing you the best mate.
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Wishing you a speedy recovery mate 
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Especially when he covered Connex’s last day during his time at Seven.
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Not sure if it has been mentioned: Nine News Sydney sports reporter Hayley Willis quit the network earlier this year and is now the communications manager at AFL club Sydney Swans, according to her Twitter profile.
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Don’t think she was there for that long?
Brian Henderson has died at the age of 89. Rest In Peace.
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Today just aired a tribute to him - Karl’s intro to it was classy:
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It’ll be rather interesting to see who does the inevitable tribute package to Hendo on tonight 6pm bulletin, after Mark Burrows’ piece on Today and Damian Ryan’s (no doubt prepared ages ago, due to currently being in Tokyo for the Olympics) on the Morning News.
Personally I think it’d be great to see Mike Dalton do the 6pm tribute to Hendo…if only to prove to some members of this forum that he’s actually capable of sensitive, compassionate reporting in addition to the fun, lighthearted fare Dalts is probably most famous for.
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All the major metro TV newsrooms have obit tapes sitting on the shelf all ready to go in the event someone “famous” dies.
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I’m well aware of that common practice in television. You’d have to imagine that Nine especially would’ve had items for Hendo on standby for years, perhaps updated every so often to include bits from more recent TV appearances such as the 2019 Kennedy Awards appearance + his final interview with Peter Overton in February last year.
But generally, we won’t know which reporters will do the obituaries until they go to air though!
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Depends on who’s running the Newsroom but usually if you have a few days notice (like they’re gravely ill and not expected to live long) you can prepare it a few days earlier then stick it straight on air.
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That was a beautiful report and tribute from Mark Burrows of the passing of Brian Henderson.
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Dougal Beatty voiced the report in Melbourne.
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Beautiful piece written on Hendo. Kind of wished that Overton or Sutcliffe did the voice over, considering they were the closest to Hendo. It was a great piece nonetheless.
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Pete very aptly ended tonight’s bulletin with Hendo’s famous sign of: “the way it is”.
I’m sure video will be available shortly.
It’s times like this that add credit to the claims that Peter is the “nicest man on television”.
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Nope.
That’s what ever news organisation does with major obits. There’s a Frontline episode about it.
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